Buyoya, who was credited with helping push democracy in the small African nation but accused of involvement in his successor’s assassination, died in Paris in December 2020 after contracting Covid-19.
Later that month Buyoya, who died aged seventy one, was interred in the Malian capital Bamako, his base for eight years as the African Union’s special envoy to Mali and the Sahel.
At the time, a senior Burundian government official had said Buyoya had the right to be buried in his home country but would not be given the honours afforded to a former head of state because of the sentence against him.
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